Chapter 258

Including dissolving guards in the Opera House, including commanding a large number of clockwork robots to assassinate Navia, and so on and so forth.

Was that something he could do on his own?

You could say that he was now a president of a large Chamber of Commerce and had some connections with high-ranking nobles, so it would be understandable if he could mobilize them.

But when he was young, when he first came to Fontaine, he was just a poor little merchant.

Where did he get the funds and connections to conduct such large-scale research?

The game was only 12+, so it didn't show that many dark sides to the players.

But the real Teyvat was not!

A "Marcel" could never have done such a big thing.

Lu Shu had felt from the beginning that there must be someone behind Marcel.

And it turned out there really was.

01...

Marcel, or Vacher, was just the tip of the iceberg of the villainous forces, nothing more.

In the two main story chapters of Chapter 4, there was a group of people closely related to the plot who never truly appeared.

The "noble group" of Fontaine.

In the first act, Lin Ni told the Traveler about his and his sister's past.

He had said.

On the surface, the nobles were kind enough to adopt him and his sister.

In reality, they were using them as tools for amusement.

And these nobles had the ability to escape Fontaine's judgment, and would not even stand in the defendant's seat.

At the end of the first act.

The police officer who committed perjury was dissolved and silenced in full view of everyone.

This scene gave Neuvillette a long close-up of his expression.

Clearly, he had a guess about the person behind the scenes.

Second act.

The Traveler and Navia worked together to find out that Marcel was the murderer in the "Serial Disappearance Case of Young Girls".

But there was one doubt that was vaguely glossed over.

That was that the earliest occurrence of the "Serial Disappearance Case of Young Girls" was before Marcel came to Fontaine from Snezhnaya to do business.

The real 【murderer】 was not him.

He only used the "Serial Disappearance Case of Young Girls" to cover up his research.

There are a few points that make one's scalp tingle the more one thinks about them!

NO. 1: "Vacher" was never involved in a trial.

Neuvillette had no impression, and the files had no record of it, which is understandable.

But as an adventurer who had once been active in Fontaine, the Spina di Rosula could not find any records of him.

The ability to erase a person's traces on a large scale was not something Marcel, a mere Chamber of Commerce president, could do.

NO. 2: Clockwork robots assassinating Navia.

Was such a large-scale assassination operation and private armed force something Marcel could possess simply by relying on financial resources?

NO. 3: When Navia and her butler were analyzing why Callas did not seek official help, they mentioned "unable to predict the extent to which the organization selling Oriphe has infiltrated the Fontaine officials."

After the Traveler appeared, it was proven that the police officer who committed perjury was silenced in full view of everyone.

This shows that the infiltration was already quite deep.

They could use "Primordial Seawater" at any time to remove threats to themselves.

NO. 4: Kidnapping young girls to conduct experiments with "Primordial Seawater" requires a certain amount of financial and power support.

If Vacher had committed crimes before changing his name, then as a foreign adventurer who had not yet accumulated funds through business, how did he complete the crimes without being noticed?

NO. 5: When she was young, Lynette was sent to the nobles, and then Lin Ni was told "just change your magic assistant".

Think about it and it's terrifying!

The potential meaning of this sentence is that those young girls who were sent to the nobles of Fontaine for pleasure would "disappear" in every sense.

It could be a disappearance caused by long-term imprisonment by the nobles.

But, it could also be a physical disappearance caused by "dissolving".

After all, the nobles would not allow such scandals to be exposed.

Those girls who were played with had only one outcome, and that was: "death".

If the Servant hadn't arrived in time, Lynette's fate would probably have been to add another meaningless number to the "Disappearance Case of Young Girls".

NO. 6: When the Traveler first arrived in Fontaine, when Lin Ni, Lynette, and Xia Luodi were chatting on the cruise ship, it was mentioned: every once in a while, the so-called murderer of the "Serial Disappearance Case of Young Girls" would be caught, but similar events would continue to happen shortly after.

It looked like a miscarriage of justice.

But judging from Neuvillette's description, before the Childe case, his judgment and the judgment of the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale were consistent.

In other words, the murderers of the "Serial Disappearance Case of Young Girls" who were "caught" before were also likely real.

Then it's obvious.

The only reasonable explanation is that those "murderers" who were caught from time to time were indeed the real culprits who kidnapped the girls.

But, they were nothing more than "black gloves" thrown out by the nobles to appease public opinion.

Therefore, Marcel was also a "black glove" in the hands of the nobles.

The true masterminds of the "Serial Disappearance Case of Young Girls" were the corrupt nobles in the upper echelons of Fontaine.

Before Vigneul met with misfortune, the tragedy of young girls disappearing had already been happening constantly.

Beautiful innocent girls were destroyed after being enjoyed by the nobles.

And Marcel just happened to discover the Primordial Seawater.

Thus, he made the girls 【disappear】 more efficiently and without being noticed.

And because of this, he received massive funding from the nobles to conduct Primordial Seawater experiments.

Marcel was not the only "black glove".

Those murderers who were tried over the decades had also been the nobles' black gloves.

And in the plot, Marcel, who was implicated because of the "Lin Ni incident", was just another abandoned pawn.

After all, the "Primordial Seawater" was already there, so Marcel was dispensable.

If he was easy to use before, then keep using him.

Now that something happened, cut him off quickly.

At most, just replace him with another "black glove".

For money, status, and women, a large number of people are willing to be the nobles' running dogs and hawks!

And Lin Ni and Lynette were just scapegoats.

The Servant saved Lin Ni and Lynette many years ago, so what would Lynette, who was almost toyed with, do?

If it were Lu Shu, he would definitely take revenge after gaining power.

Clearly, the two siblings must have done the same.

And because of this, they were chosen by the nobles as "scapegoats".

This way, they could push out another murderer to appease public sentiment, and also remove people who had been working against them for a long time.

It's just a pity.

The thief was from Mondstadt, and the existence of the Traveler caused the nobles' plan to fail.

Helpless, Marcel could only be thrown out as an abandoned pawn.

"I really didn't expect that the real murderers were still them."

Focalors sighed.

"Yeah, there's one thing I didn't expect either."

Lu Shu shook his head.

During the plot, he had already seen that there was someone behind Marcel. ===== CHAPTER 259 =====